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Weekly mp3 #16: Daniel Maze - How's The Serenity?

This is the title track from the How’s The Serenity? EP, which can be downloaded from the Test Tube net label.

Starts off with nose(-out-of-joint) flutes, acoustic guitar, and rain sticks, with synthesized swells. Should be ridiculously cloying, but things get interrupted. The EP is experiments with tape, apparently, and when some synth + mellotron flute type lushness swamps the intro noises it springs up with that pause-button-being-released tape zhwoing. It’s a thing of awesomeness. And as abruptly as the sound arrives it squelches to a halt, everything falling back to the quiet residue of the sounds from the intro. This approach repeats unpredictably. I love it. Beautiful contrast between the pretty, fluid harmonic content and the way Mr Maze messes with it. Yum.

Daniel Maze is a Canadian who so far has released only net releases. Quite a few of them. Some have beats, but not usually. Some are really glitchy and distorted, but not usually. This EP is my favourite.

Post-rock fans will probably find a lot of interest on Test Tube. I like some of their releases a fair bit.

Labels: music, weekly mp3

Posted at 13:10